A California man has been taken off death row after the Santa Clara District Attorney’s office declined to retry the penalty phase of his murder trial. Miguel Bacigalupo’s death sentence was vacated by
the California Supreme Court late last year due to the suppression of
exculpatory evidence by a state investigator, Sandra Williams, who
actively dissuaded the defendant’s trial lawyers from conducting an
investigation that might have turned up the exculpatory information she
was withholding....